you dont need "fuck ton of communication" but rather just a calm team, if you notice your team is starting to tilt/rage just get a timeout and chill. Also alot of the times i see that we are starting to lose the game like 5 rounds in a row, i just say out loud to the team that we are losing the game and ask my team to play as team like going together to sites or mid or really anywhere. Key to having calm team is you being calm and calming other people down, I can tell you this because this shit has happened to me so many times and i pretty much only solo q

I agree with you. Also, One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet is the amount of time that you have to dedicate to completing one match. I get off of work after a long day, want to play CSGO, and get stuck with people that are often just terrible to be around. Then you are stuck in that match whether they are kicked, go AFK, talk shit, etc. While getting stomped by the other team.

It can turn an already stressful day into an even worse one and it is incredibly frustrating.

Dude, this. Like some Saturday’s I only have two hours to play (so like 2 games), and to join a match with some toxic teammate or someone abandoning...its incredibly frustrating. My wife noted how much it affected my mood and I had to tone down how much having a good CS MM experience influenced my attitude after (and vice versa). But having long ass games and limited playtime makes it rough.

You do if you wanna play at a high level. I agree being calm is also important. But in my 5k hours (lvl 10 face it, global) I have definitely noticed big differences in my own perfomance, as well as others, when call outs and info has been on point.

Remember, you only know what you hear and see. For example: If they throw both their mollies at B while youre holding A ramp as terrorist, I would love to know that info, because it means we could probably take the site without getting stopped by a molotov. A lot of people wouldnt say anything though

So how can I make solo queue experiences better for myself? Do you guys have any tips towards making the game fun and enjoyable in SoloQ?

It's not the best advice to get better at the game but just make yourself the designated entry fragger, IGL and playmaker. by IGL I don't mean to come up with a crazy strat every round but just say 'Shall we go B?'/'Let's go B guys'. Even if no one replies it gets rid of that start of round confusion on where are we going and wasting time and. On CT side just give good info the whole time, don't over do it. For example, I usually play B on mirage in aps. Just give as much info as possible 'I haven't seen anyone B yet', when someone calls that they are pushing A and you haven't seen bomb on minimap rotate to A but be weary of a B push still because comms could be bad. Just take comms with a grain of salt every time. Don't really rely on anyone to make plays, try to be good for your team morale, put 'nt' in the chat even after a shit play by your team. 'good eco' after just about losing in an eco round etc. all those things. What I see many people fuck up and start getting toxic on MM is that they expect too much from their team. Asking to be flashed in, assuming that because they are holding an angle or a particular area of the map that they have it in control. On mirage if you are playing B and your teammate is window don't assume that they will give you a callout if someone is pushing short to B. Never assume an angle is cleared because your teammate is in that area.

Overall it's just a mixture to take everything your team plays/does with a pinch of salt and play with your team but also play for yourself. By that I mean don't expect them to clear every angle properly when you're retaking a site, don't be scared to double check angles they SHOULD'VE cleared because 9 times out of 10 they didn't check it. But at the same time be a team player, give your callout and positivity to the team. It's complicated but this is just my experience playing the game

The best suggestion for having a better SoloQ experience is to never play it. Get 4 friends together (or find new friends who want to play CS with others) and queue as a 5 stack. Playing solo is just shooting yourself in the foot.

Solo q can be okay sometimes. I usually start off the game by being very supportive, saying good try, good job, nice pick, etc - just flood positive comments early on and keep going. Early positivity sets a trend just like early negativity. Also, don't be afraid of the mute button.

I play solo q myself and of course I try to make the best of it, but I think not everyone has the same mindset as me. I never tilt, I don't get angry and I have no problem dropping to my teammates every other round even if they never drop me in return. If you do these things, you can improve soloQ for yourself, but we all know that the only way to enjoy CS to its fullest is to play with friends.

i really have that attitude , but what tilts me of the face of the earth are people who are toxic after round 1 like the game didn't even start chill , or the guy who talks shit in chat while contributing nothing to the team and being toxic or the idiots who don't give any info even when they die and just rely on you to carry their asses , MM is sometimes cancer but sometimes you get lucky and have good and nice teamates and it really feels good

I'm always calm and positive and most of my games go smoothly whether its a win or lose. When I used to play with my he would rage and that made me realize how much of a difference a positive vs negative attitude can be.

Depends. Lately me and my friends. 2 of em dropped the game for a time due to matchmaking screwing us over. We are barely silver elite all of us. A few reaching Nova 1 lately. And 3 games in a row as full stack we were matched against a full team of double AK and golden eagle ranks who clearly destroyed us . 3 games in a row in different maps with under one minute of search so no way matchmaking got desperate . As 3 players we get matched sometimes against higher ranks but only nova 2 or 3 , but the moment we full stack again we went against teams with 4 ranks above us with their lowest rank still being 2 ranks higher than ours.

We are all of us prime players with 700 to 1300 hours and we lost our ranks 2 years ago and started back down on silver 3 on January so we have no idea why is this. And even on our few solo games or small party games ranks are a mess on the game with some games having players with 2 ranks lowers or higher and it clearly shows on the scoreboard.

Luckily solo queuing I had only 1 game with griefers who suicide using my grenades to kick me . But I feel that at least on my case and my friends case is throwing us into really unfun matches with enemy teams with higher rank, or in general players in both teams who are new accounts level 0 on steam which are either smurfs or whatever even when all of us are prime players with hours in the upper triple digits or more.

Also please, for the love of gaben, give russians their own servers and make them good enough that they also play there instead of on the eu servers. Not all of them, but the majority i meet are constantly talking in russian and the the only english words they know are "shut" and "up". On constant repeat, dare you even make one callout.

Usually the next game after meeting such individuals is great, with nice eu people that seem to have a similarly high trust factor, but the next game after that one is again "shut up" on constant repeat.

One of the biggest skills you can learn to improve your Mm experience is just keeping track of the game.
Matchmaking for the most part is an aimfest - a series of 1v1s and the better aimers generally win.

One way you can help your team is to be a central point of communication.
Use your minimal, keep track of which enemy players tend to be lurkers and look for them in the kill feed, use sound cues including gunshots, what guns they have.

Your teammate just died to "xx_slayer_xx" on B and called him out as "Heaven" but another player killed him? Call "heaven dead".

Is your teammate in an intense 1v3 clutch? Call their positions for them. "Short, b main, heaven". Let them do the work after but they now know where all 3 players are without thinking and are much more likely to win that round.

Being able to keep track of every player on the game via your teammates, your radar and the killfeed is extremely useful.

If your teammates won't communicate then pick up the slack for them.
And honestly even when people can communicate, knowing all of this can help anyone.

Good game sense like this and good communication to your teammates will take you a very long way, even if your aim isn't fantastic.

Some other users have given good responses so I'll just say this: there's nothing, nothing to rage over in MM. it's just a game, your rank is an averaging of your performances as you keep playing. Focus on yourself, and if your team is trash/toxic/not communicating then let them and just play. We're privileged enough to own PCs and spend time playing video games, no need to pop a blood vessel because fucking POURPEL DIDNT THROW THE FLASH I ASKED FOR AND NOW THE AWPER SWUNG OUT AHFJSDHKFJSHDFj VOTE KICK THIS NERD

I thought Faceit was generally recommended for MG/DMG+? I just hit MG1 from legit solo queuing since I picked up the game 500 hours ago and I’m terrified I’ll get rekt on ESEA/Faceit. Have only played with Nova’s for the last 200 hours

The skills needed for Faceit are pretty different than MM, so it isn't all that easy to convert. However, especially if you aren't toxic and if your map knowledge is decent, I think you should do just fine between level 1 and level 2. Also on Faceit you WILL get free loss/win due to toxic/uncommunicative teammates because unlike matchmaking, the other team will often be communicating A LOT so on higher levels, you often cannot hard-carry teams. However, your elo will eventually stabilize and then the change will largely depend on your skill level.

The highest I could ever reach was LEM on MM, and based on people's claims and my small map pool, I'd believe level 5 to be my skill ceiling. However, within a few weeks I reached level 6 and I still get more wins than losses every day. For example, I'm generally nice and I can usually bring my team's motivation back into the game unless I'm the one getting flamed, which is a skill that I could hardly ever make use of in matchmaking because most players there literally don't care anymore once they think they'll lose.

Faceit's community is MUCH better than MM. However, there still are toxic people that you'll find every day. Whatever you do, DON'T buy Faceit premium if your goal is a more intellectual environment, because the premium queue is basically as toxic as MM. Your Faceit rank also means more, because reaching Global meaningless.

I have good tips as solo queue only player and poker player :
The fast mute rule :when someone triggers you, get a bit toxic early game, just mute him because in majority of cases, i would say 70%, it will get worse and worse make you tilt and play bad. In the other 30%,the guy finally calm down and or give you usefull info so overall the benefits of muting are better on the long run.
When your team is constantly making bad calls, with annoying com like constantly talkiing for nothing just when you need to focus just use the complete mute function during a round or 2
When players dont seem to follow a strat and dont listen your calls and strats at all, just let it down and pass in dm mode:just make as much kills as you can without preasure like a death match. Sometimes it will magically lead you to top frager and at this point your teamates will start to trust and listen you.

I always try to be nice to toxic people and don't be toxic like them. If someone on my team makes a stupid play and we lose that round I cheer him/her up and say next time or so. If you play with a healthy attitude even toxic players will communicate.

Thats my advice, I play solo not trying hard and im LEM so the coms works pretty well on my matches.

PS: Im from southamerica and sometimes I play with brazilians that speak a different language and still we can communicate if you have the right attitude.

My favorite line to say while on a losing team is: “let’s play together and win this this next one, then we win out”. Remember though, sometimes you just get unlucky with teammates, it helps to bring in one or two solid players.

That's soloQ MM for you. You get people that are cunts, and you get people that are nice. Sometimes you really can't do anything with people like that, but it helps a lot if you build rapport with people during the early stages of the match. By building that sort of relationship with them, they can feel more comfortable with you and such, but this doesn't work 100% of the time because everyone is different.

I feel like going into the match with a really positive and rational mindset helped me a lot as well. When I go into a game with a positive mindset, it helps me enjoy the game more, and the rational side helps me with the tilting part - "Why did he make a mistake?", "Did he get unlucky?", "What happened", etc. But as you know, those things fail you too. We're all human and those things fail sometimes, and that's okay. Just try your best to not let the others be affected negatively :D

You could play Faceit, and I personally found the experience be better for me. It could be different for you though so keep that in mind.

The quality of my matches and team mates in faceit has been consistently much better than mm for the past year. All spent between level 4 and level 7 faceit and lem/smfc mm. I find more people in mm who couldn't care about their ranks than faceit

There's no doubt been lots of terrible and toxic team mates on faceit, but absolutely nothing compared to mm

That's true for sure on Faceit premium, I'm explicitly saying that premium is significantly better than MM and is a genuinely good experience.

Free? Every game I've gotten bored and decided to queue up for free has resulted in multiple leavers/people literally throwing intentionally or just not trying in the slightest. That has been true literally 100% of the time.

Heck? My Premium experience has been consistently worse than Free, but I didn't try it since Level 4. Could it be that on lower levels peoole just buy it because "their teams suckkk omggg" and they expecr everyone to play like s1mple on round 4, whereas on higher levels people have a better idea of what to expect?

If you're NA, then I'm still confident that Faceit Free is better than MM and Faceit Premium is as bad as MM (but it hurts more).

SoloQ is hard to make fun unless you have a decent Trust Factor and get paired up with friendly people. I agree that communication is key but there are a lot of trolls and toxic people in this game.

One strat I've been doing is just saying hi after the warmup round, then becoming the IGL and giving strats. This works 95 percent of the time as people just listen since we obviously want to win but if people have another strat, I respect it and we try it. This works for me as I hope it does for you. GLHF :-)

Oddly enough I've actually had the best luck queuing at night and getting south american teammates.

Sure sometimes they can be toxic like anybody else but my best MM experiences has been calling with them. I can understand Spanish/Portuguese well enough and they get English call-outs so it just works.

I dropped a few 30/40 kill games the other day with my buddy (currently low ranks because of decay so it's easy) and was doing well. I'd say it's bottom of the barrel Prime Trust Factor but seems like CS is a racist cheater's haven anyways so who knows.

We got into a match with a team on Overpass, dude was talking shit: I shit talked back and said something funny, tension was over, we started and won the game. As soon as I said something to him and defused the situation my buddy says something along the lines of "Man you really won him over"...which is something I usually do the opposite of because I go the toxic route right back at them. He was a douche throughout and a typical racist CS kid at the end, but it got us through the game.

Another game on Inferno, we joined and guy instantly says "GG" and is AFK first round. You could tell people were tilted out of the spawn and it was over once we lost pistol round. I gave up immediately and just started running around taking any fight and watching TV. We lost 16-0.

TLDR; don't be a toxic little annoying racist douche like most of the player base and don't care about rank and maybe you'll enjoy MM 25% of the time.

I play MM to queue with my buddy and style on silvers. If I was serious about CS I would never join a Valve server willingly. Solo queue MM would make Jesus consider suicide.

It doesnt. I dont think i have played a close Faceit game where people didnt lose their shit at some point. And sometimes it fucking helps as long as the guy talking shit shuts the fuck up during the actual game (which almost everyone does when it's a close game). If you are a somewhat competetive player who wants to improve you will try A LOT harder after being shittalked.

If you expect people on the internet to be nice to you all the time you are delusional. Cs go is just a game and if someone calls you an inbred dipshit that cant aim, you'll only really show that person if you start trying your fucking hardest and hit some shots instead of letting that person tilt you and complain on reddit afterwards.

I can't complain. I flash my teammates all the time 😂 and it's way more fun playing this way rather than playing all serious. I don't mind communication, it is soloQ after all. But I agree with you on the toxic part. So I'll give you a tip when playing with toxic teammates. Never and I mean never say sorry or back down when they are toxic to you. I see it all the time. Someone insults the guy who failed. The failed guy apologises. This gives the toxic guy even more license to screw you over and in fact he gains support from the whole team to insult you or kick you. By apologizing, the failed guy acknowledges that it's his fault. But the truth is it's not. It's part of the game. So if someone insults you, do one of 2 things:
1. Mute him or heck mute the whole team.
2. Throw him under the bus by insulting him back or saying stfu pourpel. He either goes on the defensive or tries to rally his teammates.

Either way if you get kicked, at least you'll go out with honor.

Honestly when you play alot of soloQ games, you just get used to it and stop thinking about it anymore.

I can't complain. I flash my teammates all the time 😂 and it's way more fun playing this way rather than playing all serious. I don't mind communication, it is soloQ after all. But I agree with you on the toxic part. So I'll give you a tip when playing with toxic teammates. Never and I mean never say sorry or back down when they are toxic to you. I see it all the time. Someone insults the guy who failed. The failed guy apologises. This gives the toxic guy even more license to screw you over and in fact he gains support from the whole team to insult you or kick you. By apologizing, the failed guy acknowledges that it's his fault. But the truth is it's not. It's part of the game. So if someone insults you, do one of 2 things:
1. Mute him or heck mute the whole team.
2. Throw him under the bus by insulting him back or saying stfu pourpel. He either goes on the defensive or tries to rally his teammates.

Either way if you get kicked, at least you'll go out with honor.

Honestly when you play alot of soloQ games, you just get used to it and stop thinking about it anymore.

It’s always been pretty bad, sure it sucks to have to pay a small fee to play CS but even low levels on a premium platform change the demographic you’re playing with a lot. Not that there arnt trolls and shitters on esea and face it tho.

I think a really good way to play is to get a bunch of friends and just 10 man with pop flash or something. And even a 1-5 dollar buy in to make it a money pug really increases the amount of effort people put in to winning